In villages across the country, volunteer community health workers are helping educate and mobilise to save lives.
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In villages across the country, volunteer community health workers are helping educate and mobilise to save lives.
![ONLY FOR FEATURE: Rwanda maternal health [Sarita Santoshini/AlJazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/b990385c935443c6989d94d26b5acde4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Residents claim they are being mercilessly taxed by armed groups, and short-changed by a corrupt state government.

Young widows who have lost husbands to gun violence face financial, legal and social hardships in India’s Manipur.
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Children are being trafficked into forced labour and sexual exploitation in large numbers from Assam state.
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Accusations of black magic causing disease and death have led to dozens of deaths during mob attacks in Assam state.
